Oscars 2015: Prognosis and Film Excess' favorites

2/22/2015

Oscars 2015: Prognosis and Film Excess' favorites

Tonight is the night of the 87th annual Academy Awards, hosted this year by the handsome, entertaining Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother (2005-14)).
Below follows a list of most of the nominated films and performers.
Red marks the person or film I expect will win.
To the right is indicated which is Film Excess' favorite.

Best Sound Mixing

American Sniper Film Excess' favorite
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken
Whiplash

Best Sound Editing

American Sniper Film Excess' favorite
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken

Best Visual Effects

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar Film Excess' favorite
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Best Make-up and Hair

Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner

Best Costume Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr. Turner

Best Song

Selma
Begin Again Film Excess' favorite
The Lego Movie
Beyond the Lights
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

Best Editing

Boyhood
The Imitation Game
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
American Sniper Film Excess' favorite

Best Animated Film

The Boxtrolls
Big Hero 6
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea Film Excess' favorite
The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Best Documentary

Citizenfour
Finding Vivian Maier Film Excess' favorite
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) Film Excess' favorite
Laura Dern (Wild)
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
Emma Stone (Birdman)
Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood) Film Excess' favorite
Edward Norton (Birdman)
Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
J. K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Best Adapted Script

American Sniper Film Excess' favorite
Inherent Vice
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best Score

The Imitation Game
The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
Interstellar
The Theory of Everything
Mr. Turner

Best Cinematography

Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
Mr. Turner
Unbroken
Ida

Best Foreign Film

Tangerines
Ida Film Excess' favorite
Leviathan
Wild Tales
Timbuktu

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Julianne Moore (Still Alice) Film Excess' favorite
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

Best Actor

Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) Film Excess' favorite
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)

Best Original Screenplay

Boyhood Film Excess' favorite
Birdman
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler

Best Director

Richard Linklater (Boyhood) Film Excess' favorite
Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu (Birdman)
Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)

Best Film

American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood Film Excess' favorite
The Imitation Game
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

NOTE:

The short film categories are left out, because I have no qualified opinion about them.
These guesses are just that. Guesses. And they will most likely be shown wrong (a good deal of them in any case) in a few hours. Then again, they may also all come true.

- Have a great Oscar evening and night 2015!

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William Friedkin has died

Born in Chicago, Friedkin accrued TV credits prior to his advance to the big screen as the director of Good TImes (1967), The Birthday Party (1968), The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) and The Boys in the Band (1970) before his major breakthrough, The French Connection (1971), for which he won his only Oscar. He followed it up with the even bigger smash, The Exorcist (1973), arguably the best horror film of all time, for which he was Oscar-nominated. Later credits include Sorcerer (1977), Cruising (1980), To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Rampage (1987), Rules of Engagement (2000), Killer Joe (2011) and The Devil and Father Amorth (2017, documentary). Friedkin passed away at age 87. R.I.P.

Louise Fletcher has passed away

Born in Alabama to deaf parents, Fletcher got her first credits in late-1950s TV-series.She took a 10 year-long sabbatical to devote her time to motherhood after the release of A Gathering of Eagles, but then came back and soon saw her career's most important part, as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), for which she won her sole Oscar. Later credits include Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Lucky Star (1980), Brainstorm (1983), Two Moon Junction (1988), Cruel Intentions (1999), A Perfect Man (2013) and many more. Fletcher passed away at age 88. R.I.P.

Jean-Luc Godard has passed away

Born in Paris, France, Godard lived much of his life in Switzerland. He wrote for French film criticism magazine Cahiers du Cinema and became foundational for the New French Wave that inspired new waves in scores of other countries across the world with his Breathless (1960). Later credits include A Woman Is A Woman (1961), Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Le Petit Soldat (1962), Contempt (1963), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967), Weekend (1967), Every Man for Himself (1980), King Lear (1987), Century of Cinema (1995, documentary), Goodbye to Language (2014) and many more. Godard died of assisted suicide at age 91. R.I.P.

Wolfgang Petersen has died

James Caan has died

Caan was born the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany in New York. He got his start on TV in the early 1960s. His credits include El Dorado (1966), The Rain People (1969), Brian's Song (1971, TV movie), The Godfather (1972), - for which he earned his only Oscar nomination, - Slither (1973), The Gambler (1974), Funny Lady (1975), Rollerball (1975), Silent Movie (1976), Hide in Plain Sight (1980), - the only film he also directed, - Thief (1981), Misery (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), Bottle Rocket (1996), Eraser (1996), Dogville (2003), Elf (2003), Las Vegas (2003-07), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and many more. Caan passed away at age 82. R.I.P.

Jean-Louis Trintignant has died

Born in Vaucluse, France, Trintignant's theatrical debut as an actor was in If All the Guys in the World... (1955). Later credits include ...And God Created Woman (1956), The Seven Deadly Sins (1961), Inferno (1964), A Man and A Woman (1966), My Love, My Love (1967), A Man to Kill (1967), The Great Silence (1968), Z (1969), The Assassination (1972), Three Colors: Red (1994), Amour (2012), Happy End (2017) and many more. He also wrote and directed two films in the 1970s. Trintignant passed away at age 91. R.I.P.

Ray Liotta has died

Adopted from an orphenage at a young age, Liotta got hooked on acting in high school. He had various TV credits in the late 1970s and early 80s, with his film debut in The Lonely Lady (1983). Later credits include Something Wild (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Goodfellas (1990), Cop Land (1997), Hannibal (2001), Blow (2001), Narc (2002), John Q (2002), Identity (2003), Observe and Report (2009), Youth in Revolt (2009), The Details (2011), Killing THem Softly (2012), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Shades of Blue (2016-18), The Simpsons (2018, TV-series), Marriage Story (2019), The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Black Bird (2022, TV-series) and many more. Liotta passed away at age 67 in his sleep while on production in the Dominican Republic. R.I.P.

Philip Baker Hall has died

Born in Ohio, Hall didn't start acting until he was 30. His long list of credits include Zabriskie Point (1970), Miami Vice (1987, TV-series), Midnight Run (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Cheers (1993, TV-series), Hard Eight (1996), The Rock (1996), Air Force One (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Seinfeld (1991-98), Rush Hour (1998), The Insider (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), The Zodiac (2005), Zodiac (2007), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004-09), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Modern Family (2011-12) and many more. Hall passed away at age 90. R.I.P.

William Hurt has passed away

Born in Washington D.C., Hurt's first film role was the lead in Altered States (1980). Later credits include Body Heat (1981), The Big Chill (1983), Gorky Park (1983), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), for which he earned his only Oscar as Best Actor; Chilrdren of a Lesser God (1986), for which he was also Oscar-nominated; Broadcast News (1987), for which he was again Oscar-nominated; Smoke (1995), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), A History of Violence (2005), for which he was again Oscar-nominated; The Good Shepherd (2006), Into the Wild (2007), Robin Hood (2010) and many more. Hurt passed away at age 71. R.I.P.

Ivan Reitman has passed away

Born in Chechoslovakia, now Slovakia, Reitman's family fled the Soviet regime to Austria, then Toronto, when he was 4 years old. Reitman broke into movies as a director with Foxy Lady (1971). Later credits include Cannibal Girls (1973), Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), Twins (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Junior (1994), Father's Day (1997), Evolution (1998), No Strings Attached (2011), Draft Day (2014) and more. Reitman's son Jason Reitman is also a great filmmaker. Reitman passed away at age 75. R.I.P.

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